Meaning | The properties characteristic of the male sex. |
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Synonym | masculinity |
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Narrower | virility | The masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation |
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Broader | sex, gender, sexuality | The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
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Opposite | femaleness, feminineness | The properties characteristic of the female sex |
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Spanish | masculinidad |
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Catalan | masculinitat |
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Adjectives | male | being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation |
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male | for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys |
male | characteristic of a man |